February 20, 2004

E: Eomer
Elendur

Don't get me wrong, I thought Eomer was well portrayed and well acted. But remember the scene where he finds Theoden wounded and Theoden says: "Hail, King of the Mark!" And remember when Eomer saw Eowyn and thought she was dead.

"He stood a moment as a man who is pierced through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him.
"Eowyn, Eowyn!" he cried at last. "Eowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death ,death! Death take us all!"

And then that line they gave to Theoden:

"Death! Ride, ride to ruin and world's ending!"

I know it's going to be in the EE, but wouldn't you rather see that than a lot of other stuff in the movie? I would. I bet a lot of people who haven't read the books would too. WHY did they leave out him becoming king??????

-Elendur

PS: To InTheLandOfMordor: The problem lies not so much in Frodo pushing Gollum(now that you mention it, I don't think he did) as in Gollum's not falling in on his own, his obsession with the Ring causing him to fall in by "chance", oblivious to his surroundings.

PPS: Gondor isn't just cities of stone. After WR was over, Ithilian was repopulated: forests and plants, caves and waterfalls. That's where I would live.